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...Elliott is lecturing at 2 o'clock in Harvard 6 on Roman politics and law. It is in Government 2b, and whoever has heard Dr. Elliott will understand my intention of visiting the lecture, even though they may think little of the subject. At the next hour, I am going to Sever 17 to hear Professor Elton lecture in his course on criticism. His subject this afternoon will be Aristotle's Poetics...
Undoubtedly the instinct of ages past animated the men and women who quietly listened to the sickening snick which marked the end of a black man's life. Such incidents make understand able the sang-froid of the French women of the Parisian terror who knitted without dropping a stitch while the guillotine cut off royalist heads...
From far and wide the delegates had gathered. The slogan of the convention was GOODWILL, a word which had been thought up by the directors of the association. They knew that their fellow members understand as well as any merchants in the U. S. the meaning of that fine phrase, and the dry-goods men, as is their wont, responded heartily. Many were the delighted slaps and winks, the chewed cigars, the roguish stories passed from lip to lip amid shouts of, "Brother, you surely made a sale with that one" . . . "Let me tell...
...manner so highly normal and idiotic that one comes to forget sooner or later that he is acting at all. Truth to tell, it is as if you and I were up there on the stage, trying desperately to cope with a lot of things which we do not understand. And so, sooner or later, Mr. Hodge obtains our sympathy, and our interest as well. We must acknowledge his powers of persuasion whether they be those of an actor or a demi...
...student head-waiter should be appointed, preferably an upperclassman of some standing and experience, who will be able to understand and to handle properly the men under him, and who will be able to voice the complaints of the waiters to the proper authorities...